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with a pushing out and folding in motion. once the dough is kneaded, wrap it in plastic and rest it for 45 minutes. after the first rest, give it another quick knead, then let it rest for a final 30 minutes. and then you can create your favorite pasta dishes. drew: thank you so much, everybody. we make this show for you, so take it with you. >> mr. president -- >> john: an ugly turn for trump's big, beautiful bill. >> maurice: musk blasts it is a disgusting abomination. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from cbs news headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ >> maurice: good evening. i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. >> maurice: the president who prides himself on making deals is having trouble reaching any
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on tariffs with america's trading partners. >> john: and he's facing a new obstacle now to another deal, getting congress to pass his massive tax cut and spending bill, the one he calls the big, beautiful bill. >> maurice: elon musk, the president's friend, ally, and sometimes advisor, today posted another, less flattering description of the bill. he called it a massive, outrageous, pork-filled, disgusting abomination. >> john: and if that wasn't enough to get members to vote against it, musk added, in november next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the american people. >> maurice: nancy cordes is at the white house. so, nancy, let's start with the president's attempts to get tariff deals here. >> reporter: well, maurice, the promise of 90 deals in 90 days has not materialized yet, so in a bid to move things along, the u.s. trade rep is sending a letter to some trading partners urging them to make their best offers now, before trump's massive on dozens of countries snap back into place next month.
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the white house says trump is likely to speak with china's president this week, but for now, trump's tariffs on chinese goods stand at 30%. >> our back-to-school season really begins in mid-july. >> reporter: when it comes to tariffs, this is one place the rubber meets the road. rack room shoes in alexandria, virginia. >> we are in this environment where prices are going to go up. >> reporter: matt priest runs the footwear distributors and retailers of america, which represents the u.s. footwear industry. he says nearly all shoes sold in the u.s. are imported from china, vietnam, and indonesia, so the industry is still bouncing back from the 145% tariff trump originally put on chinese goods and then dialed back last month. >> it stopped the movement of footwear for that five or six week period. >> reporter: are there any shoe companies that you represent that support the tariffs? >> i'm yet to find them. >> reporter: tomorrow, the president is doubling his
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worldwide tariffs on steel and aluminum. you've got u.s. business leaders begging for certainty, so why did the president suddenly decide to hike tariffs on steel and aluminum again? >> you also have u.s. business leaders begging to meet with this president and begging to come to the white house to talk to him because they know that he is a negotiator in chief, that he is making good deals on behalf of the american worker. >> reporter: the president argues his tariffs will ultimately boost domestic production, but when it comes to shoes, there's one big stumbling block. >> the administration is also increasing tariffs on the inputs, materials, and machinery that's needed to produce here in the united states. we don't have all those things right now, in the quantities that we need them to serve the consumer, so the policy is not really lining up with the rhetoric right now. >> john: nancy, those comments by elon musk were zesty to be sure, but what is the practical impact of them? >> reporter: well, john, it is
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certainly giving ammunition to the small group of republicans who want to see big changes to the bill, but republican leaders in the house and senate, right now they are rejecting musk's criticisms. they insist the tax cuts in this bill are going to lead to higher growth and ultimately more revenue. even though independent analysts have determined that the bill, as written right now, will add at least a trillion dollars to the deficit. >> maurice: okay, nancy cordes at the white house, thank you. >> john: the trump administration has been changing the names of military bases and geographical landmarks, and now more changes may be coming. >> maurice: cbs news has learned that name changes are being considered for navy ships. the pentagon says defense secretary pete hegseth wants the names to reflect the commander in chief's priorities, our nation's history, and the warrior ethos. here is tom hanson. >> reporter: navy documents obtained by cbs news propose a timeline to the rollout of the name change of the harvey milk, a ship named after the first openly gay man to be elected to office in california. the proposal comes during
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pride month, the month-long observance of the lgbtq+ community that coincides with the anniversary of the stonewall uprising of 1969. that's you. >> that is absolutely me. >> reporter: mark segal was there when police raided the club. protesters resisted. it was a major milestone in the lgbt movement. >> we were a unified force, and that meant supporting our trans brothers and sisters. >> reporter: that history is preserved both here at the inn and a few steps away at the stonewall national monument, commemorating the birth of what ultimately became lgbtq+. but on its website, the national park service, without explanation, removed the entire back part, including t for transgender. >> i was part of that history. i know what my trans brothers and sisters did, and i'm going to continue telling that story, with or without a government web page which erases that t. >> what disturbs me is that i don't know that we are done yet, seeing this effort to scrub and rewrite american history. >> reporter: alan spears is
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the resident historian with the national park's conservation association. what's your biggest fear? seeing what we are seeing today? >> these things always start slowly. we are going to remove a photograph from a website. we are going to scrub some language. it doesn't make a great deal of sense to talk about the american civil war and not talk about the issues of race, slavery. >> reporte: now we should also note that harvey milk was a navy veteran who served during the korean war. the documents obtained by cbs news reveal other navy vessels on the recommended list for renaming. they are ships name for trailblazers, including thurgood marshall, harriet tubman, cesar chavez, and medgar evers. >> john: tom hanson, thank you. >> maurice: now more of the top stories from around the world in the "evening news" round up. a tornado touched down today near the stadiums where the kansas city chiefs and royals play. no reports of serious injuries or damage, though. lonnie quinn a have more about this later in the broadcast.
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>> john: the wife and five children of the alleged boulder, colorado, fire bomber are now in the custody of u.s. immigration officials and facing deportation. the suspect is an egyptian national who is in the u.s. on an expired tourist visa. he faces federal hate crime charges and state attempted murder charges in the attack on demonstrators supporting israeli hostages in gaza. three of the 12 people injured in the attack are still in the hospital. >> maurice: officials in gaza say at least 27 palestinians were killed by israeli troops as they approached an aid distribution site run by the u.s.-backed gaza humanitarian foundation. israel says it did not fire on innocent civilians. imtiaz tyab in tel aviv has been looking into the foundation. and imtiaz, what have you learned?% >> reporter: well, we have asked the gaza humanitarian foundation and its affiliate safe reach solutions for an on-camera interview, but frankly with no luck. now safe reach solutions, however, does have a public we
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listed address here in israel, which we visited, and we are left with even more questions. in central tel aviv, this building, undergoing extensive renovations, is the publicly-listed israeli address of safe reach solutions, or srs. we went to see if we could talk to someone from the wyoming-registered company about their operations in gaza. >> hi, my name is ofir with cbs news. >> reporter: what we have been told, by the woman we have spoken to, is there is only one person, one family in this building. she asked us to obscure her identity to protect her privacy. the woman who lives in this building didn't want to speak to us on camera, but what she did tell us is that there is an apartment in this building that is rented out as an airbnb, and that a group of americans, well-dressed americans, as she described them, stayed there for a few nights. the company and the gaza humanitarian foundation are on the ground inside gaza, along
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with these armed american private security contractors. >> here they come. >> reporter: seen and heard here at a humanitarian aid distribution hub, where for three consecutive days, there were scenes of chaos and death nearby. the bodies of those killed and injured on sunday can be seen lying on the sand as the sun rose. the hamas-run ministry of health say, in total, over 100 palestinians have been killed, and hundreds more wounded since then, with almost all suffering from bullet or shrapnel wounds. ghf and the israeli military originally denied that any violence occurred, but in a later statement, the idf said it targeted "a few individuals who posed a security threat." but a cbs news team was at the funeral of a mother of eight, reem akhras, who was shot dead on her way to retrieve an aid parcel from a ghf hub this morning. her children now simply inconsolable. >> john: imtiaz, what more have you been able to find out,
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if you have, about the gaza humanitarian foundation? >> reporter: well, what we >> solutions, the main group providing armed security in gaza, is run by phillip riley, a former senior cia officer. we also know that jake wood, a former u.s. marine, lead fundraising for the gaza humanitarian foundation, up until around a week ago, when he resigned over concerns about ghf's independence, and while the names of any donors have not yet been made public, and the israeli government has repeatedly denied providing any financial support to the group or its affiliates,we did learn that both ghf and safe reach solutions are registered as companies in delaware and wyoming. >> maurice: imtiaz tyab tonight in tel aviv. thanks so much. >> john: still ahead on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn on sand from the sahara heading for the beaches of florida. >> maurice: and we'll have these stories. >> i'm david schechter in houston. recently named one of the
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most-polluted cities in america. now the trump administration is allowing some businesses here and across the country to exceed some pollution limits. how that impacts communities is tonight's "eye on america." ♪ ♪ >> i'm scott macfarlane. the fbi has a striking warning for parents whose kids recently got cell phones. that's next on the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ that's next on the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ airsupra is the only asthma rescue inhaler fda-approved to treat symptoms and help prevent asthma attacks. airsupra should not be used as a maintenance treatment for asthma. get medical help right away if your breathing doesn't improve or worsens or for serious allergic reactions, like rash, mouth or tongue swelling, trouble breathing or swallowing, or chest pain. using airsupra more than prescribed could be life-threatening. serious side effects include increased risk of thrush or infections, or heart problems like faster heart rate and higher blood pressure. ask your doctor if airsupra is right for you. hey sweaty! sweetie. you good? someone stole my old spice antiperspirant. now i'm smelling like perspirant!
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>> i think, certainly, riley was afraid, ashamed. >> reporter: he was 15 years old, a high school football player from potsdam, new york, who had just begun using social media. when a predator pretending to be a teenage girl convinced basford to share private, illicit images of himself on a messenger app, then threatened to reveal the pictures and demanded money. what do you think he was thinking after they demanded $3500? >> i think he must have been worried about being embarrassed. >> reporter: he died by suicide five hours after receiving the first message. >> the police and the ambulance were leaving slowly, so that it's like, oh, he's definitely dead, right, because if they were going to save him, they would be going fast right now. >> reporter: fbi records reviewed by cbs news show a spike in reports of sextortion since 2019. lauren coffren with the nationl center for missing and exploited
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children says her team has also seen a surge in cases targeting teen boys. they are seeing the children as a profit center to going after the money? >> this is like something we have never seen before. we are used to people being able to reach out to engage and chat with children for sexual reasons. they want the images. they want to be able to maybe meet up. now they want money. >> reporter: the extorters aren't across the street or across the state. many are across the globe, including in the ivory coast, where the fbi recently busted a group of four charged with a scheme to extort ryan last, a 17-year-old from san jose, california, another boy who died by suicide just hours after being sextorted. safety groups say the predators are also targeting boys because they believe boys are less willing to report this to authorities out of humiliation, but also, maurice and john, because so many of us with teenage kids have had the conversation with daughters, but not with our sons, something we all have to fix.
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>> john: indeed. scott macfarlane in washington. thank you, scott. >> maurice: to the weather now, and lonnie quinn's tracking tornadoes in the heartland. >> john: and dust in the wind. dust from the sahara reaching the united states. lonnie, what's up with that? >> that's right, we'll talk about everything. it just shows you the power of the jet stream. those tornado warnings that were in effect in kansas have been replaced now by flash flood warnings. look at this. that car just engulfed by the water, too heavy, too fast, they are trapped and their people in their as we speak -- actually a little bit earlier, we taped this video. the rescue workers are out there trying to get them out. you got to be careful in water like that. if you look at with that storm is right now, the potential for something like that in portions of missouri, even say oklahoma is out there for tonight and there is also still a chance for severe weather, damaging winds, maybe even some twist in the atmosphere. got to show you the one picture that sort of really paints the picture of how thick the smoke can be out there. this is in marquette, michigan. you can't see anything because okay, they've got some clouds up
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there, but there's a lot of smoke. air quality is all the way up to 296. 300 is hazardous for anybody out there. let's take a look here, though, one other picture i want to show you. can we get to, that's it, close the window. guys, this is san juan, puerto rico. no, that is not any sort of a wildfire smoke out there. that is sahara dust. they are dealing with it right now. some of that smoke -- excuse me, some of that dust could make it to the florida coastline by the time we get to the next day or two. right now that is the very latest. guys, just shows you, like i said, the power of that jet stream, how it can take a storm miles, hundreds of thousands of miles away, and bring it to your area. gentlemen? >> maurice: it sure can. lonnie quinn, thank you. >> john: the trump rollback of environmental regulations is having an impact, especially in lower-income communities. >> maurice: that is tonight's "eye on america." it's next. ♪ ♪ lower income communities. >> maurice: that is tonight's "eye on america." it's next. eloped agitation that may happen with dementia due to alzheimer's disease. she started...verbally lashing out. breaking things.
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>> maurice: president trump is easing regulations designed to protect the environment. his epa administrator says they are a burden on industry and the rollback will spur the economy. in tonight's "eye on america," david schechter looks at the impact of this in houston, branded by the american lung association as one of the most-polluted cities in the nation. [train horn blowing] [knocking] >> reporter: we are back in houston, talking to folks who live next to an oil refinery. do you know what is in the air? >> no, to be honest, we don't. i don't. and i've been here my whole life. >> reporter: when we first visited here in to december, president trump had just been elected, promising energy industry he would roll back environmental regulations that protect air quality. >> the last thing we want here is some sort of cancer cluster. >> reporter: now that he's in office, trump environment protection agency is slashing and reconsidering dozens of rules designed to fight pollution and firing many of the epa staffers who enforce the rules that remain.
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>> i think of pollution as a silent, invisible killer. >> reporter: dr. winston liaw at the university of houston treats patients who run a higher risk of lung disease, asthma, and heart attacks due to emissions from oil refineries, chemical plants, and coal plants. how much do you know about how the ir in houston affects human health? >> there are these tiny particles, and they are so small that they bypass a lot of our defenses, and then they start injuring all sorts of tissue in our body. >> reporter: a 2018 study from rice university found pollution from this houston-area coal plant contributed to 177 premature deaths a year. in april, the trump administration gave 68 plants, including this one, a two-year exemption from complying with federal regulations intended to lower mercury emissions, a powerful toxin affecting the brain. cbs news analyzed the trump administrations exemptions and found nearly 65% of these plants
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are located within 3 miles of low-income, minority communities. >> bottom line is who is more at risk are poor people. >> reporter: ben jealous is the executive director of the sierra club, the environmental advocacy group that led an effort to close almost two-thirds of the country's coal plants. >> when you start increasing production at coal-fired power plant, you are going to kill more people. and you're going to cause more heart attacks. and you're going to cause more@. >> reporter: in a statement, the owner of the plant, nrg, writes its coal units operate in compliance with the current mercury air toxic standards, and the trump administration, in a statement to cbs news, says biden-era coal plant regulations strain our electrical grid and undermine our national security by leaving america vulnerable to electricity shortages. the argument that we need reliable energy is not valid? >> the argument that coal gives you more reliabe energy is invalid. solar, wind, and batteries
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gives you the most reliant, most resilient grid. >> john: and most importantly, he says, for the people in houston and across the country, the least pollution. for "eye on america," i'm david schechter in houston. >> maurice: coming up next, why 1925 was a very good year. ♪ ♪ >> nnouncer: this portion of the "cbs evening news" is sponsored by bristol myers squibb. istol myer.
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>> john: it is one of the most famous aircraft in the sky. the goodyear blimp. and it's 100 years old today. >> maurice: on june 3rd, 1925, goodyear launched its first blimp, the pilgrim, over akron, ohio. five years later, the defender was the first to carry a neon sign. >> john: in 1955, the blimp covered its first sporting event, the rose bowl. since then, it has given viewers a sky-high view of thousands of games. >> maurice: passengers have included first lady nancy reagan, celebrating the birthday of her son, ron, and later, former president ronald reagan. >> john: but it appears he was at the first president to fly on a blimp. the fdr library says this photo shows then-navy secretary franklin roosevelt on a french dirigible in 1918. >> maurice: roosevelt wrote of the experience, "the sensation is distinctly serious, less noise than an aero, and far more feeling of drifting at the mercy of the winds." >> john: and he said the pilot
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made a beautiful landing. nothing to fear. >> maurice: nowadays goes up to 1500 feet and 73 miles per hour. >> john: and you don't have to go through tsa. >> maurice: that's true. no checking. that is the "cbs evening news." i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. "evening news plus" is ready to stream on cbs news 24/7. i'll see you there. >> maurice: and we'll see you right back here tomorrow night. have a good night. ♪ ♪
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>> john: welcome to "cbs evening news plus." i'm john dickerson. for three decades, the persecuted fleeing to the united states have been able to work. now the trump administration is considering restricting what asylum-seekers can do as their cases play out. cbs's camilo montoya-galvez was first to report the proposal and joins us with the details.
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